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Letters .Patent No. 76,274, dated III/[arch 31, 1868'.

IMPROVEMENT III WATER-METER OR MOTOR.

T O ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, CHESTER TURNER, of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kentfand State of Michigan, have invented a new andus'eful Tater-Meter or Motor; and I do hereby declare the following .to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying;l drawings, which are made la part of this specification. i l

This invention is .designed chieiy to furnish a cheap and accurate device for measuring water; yet it affords, at the same time, a means for imparting to machinery the power which is due to the motion of the water, as will be hereinafter explained. I I

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved meter, with the cap-plate B, fig. 2, removed, to expose the enclosed parts.

Figure 2 is a vertically-oblique section ofthe same, the plane of section being indicated by the line :z: rv, iig. l.

-Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

In the drawings, A is a. cylindrical shell or casing, and B a screw-cap, which, when screwed upon the end oi" the casing Affor'ms, in conjunction-withthe latter, a' close chamber, C. D is a central shaft, mounted to rotate in suitable bearings 'inthe casing A and cap B= and having keyed, or otherwise fastened to it, a circular rotary hub or block, E. This hub is formed with a central annular chamber or cavity, El Es, from which' two openings, E2 E3, are adapted to discharge water into the Vmain chamber C. F is the inletport, and G- the outletport. As the inlet-port is not shown in ig.1, it being in the cap-,plate B, its position is indicated by thc dotted circle at F. H II' are wings or valves, whose pivotal extremities-h h are fitted in sockets cast in the opposite sides of the'hnb E. Depressions, at e e, are formedl in the periphery of the hub E, so that when the wingsH DJ are-closed upon said hub they shall be flush with the surface of thc latter, and thereby insure a close joint between the hub and the packingI while the said wings are moving incontact with the said packing, as well as during the other periods of the hubs rotation. The chamber El El* is divided into two equal apartments by the partition E4, whose plane intersects and is parallel with the axis of tbevhubE. v

In operatiomwater in transit enters the chambered hub E through the port F; and if theparts be in the position, as shown in iig. l, the water is first received into the apartment E*, in which it rises till it has egress at the opening E3, and the valve or Wing H', being then free to open, assumes the position in which it is represen-ted intig I, its free-end bearing'against the inner periphery of the shell A. The wing H, being projected in the manner shown in lig. 1, receives the 'pressure of the Water, and, being carried around in the chamber C in advance of the water.by which it is actuated, (as indicated by the red arrows,) imparts rotation to the hub E and shaft D. When the wing H has passed the outlet-port H, the Water, having egressthrough the latter, of course ceases to act upon it; but the wing H will have then reached the position in which Hv is shown, and being actedupon by water passing through the apartment E of the chambered hub, said wing H imparts rotation to the hub. The action of the water (in its passage through the meter) upon the wings H II alternately, imparts continuous rotation to the hub E and shaft D; and a suitable register, connected to the shaft D, may be employed to record every complete rotation thereof, and consequently the amount of liquid-passing through the meter. When the water is'under pressure, or .has suiicient head, the above-described device is capable of transmitting power to machinery through the medium of the shaft D.

I have described an apparatus which is simple and cheap in construction, accurate as a meter, and effective as a motor. l l

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new herein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The pivoted wings HH', adapted to opera-te both as valves and pistons,-substantially as herein described and represented.

2. The combination of the shell or. casing A B, packing I, ports F G, rotary hb E, having chambers or apartments El E* and openings E2 E3, with the valves or wings I-I H', all constructed and arranged to operate in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

CHESTER TURNER.

Witnesses L. BEMENT, THOMAS Connnns. 

